Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve hits and one strike-out." The strikeout: Johnson's proposal on natural gas. Texan Johnson and Democrats from other gas-producing states want natural gas to flow free of federal price controls, while Democrats of Minnesotan Humphrey's stripe want tight control from Washington to hold prices down. Majority Leader Johnson's point on gas might in 1956 lead to a congressional fight demonstrating that not all Democratic hearts are in the same place. As for the rest of the program, the Democratic congressional majorities had as good a chance to enact it next year...
...Sefrou, who served as Mohammed V's representative in Paris during the Sultan's exile. Si Bekkai is a retired lieutenant colonel of French cavalry, lost his right leg in the Ardennes Forest during World War II. The Sultan, with Si Bekkai's help, hopes to hold back impetuous nationalists, and means to rule. Said he: "When the government is responsible to a duly elected body, it will be different . . . Before that, any limitation of my powers . . . would only result in anomaly and confusion...
...Texas Christian University's great junior halfback, Jim Swink, took three quarters to get started, then ran all over the massive Mustangs of S.M.U. to lead his team to a 20-13 victory and the Southwest Conference championship. ¶ Trying hard to hold on to their No. 1 national ranking without giving away secrets to Maryland's Orange Bowl scouts, Oklahoma's undefeated Sooners ran a run-of-the-mill offense against Oklahoma A. & M. and plowed the Aggies under 53-0. ¶ Georgia Tech's speedy backfield ran rings around outmanned Georgia as the Rambling...
...glass lens. Only 5 mm. in diameter, the circular lens has wings (Schreck calls them "bridges") that give it an overall width of 11½ to 13½ mm., according to the size of the eyeball. The wings fit into the angles where the iris is attached, and hold the lens steady so that it can never fall back into the eyeball...
...last artistic peak in the late '403." For him both Siqueiros and Rivera in recent years have become "paintbrush and spray-gun pamphleteers." With only Indian-born Rufino Tamayo, 55, whose warm, semi-abstract paintings make him a big prizewinner outside Mexico, now strong enough to challenge the hold of the Big Three, Dr. Carillo still keeps Orozco at the top of his list as "the finest of all Mexican contemporary artists, the best in our hemisphere-surely one of our century's greatest draftsmen." Two paintings from Dr. Carillo's collection (opposite), now part...